The importance of gesture competence in foreign Ianguage learning in terms of the relation between culture and gesture
The object of language learning is to develop communicative competence. This
paper intends to include gesture competence as an indispensable constituent in
communicative competence. Gesture competence refers to the comprehension and
production of different gestures from each culture. The main purpose of this paper is
to place a high value upon the role of gesture competence as an entree accessible to
the culture of the target language. This paper serves to help foreign language leamers
recognize the importance of gesture competence with which they can speak a foreign
language more naturally and more easily.